Mac NSTextField won't resign firstResponder

Did you co,nnect both Editing Did End and Exit and Editing Did End even t s to trhe IBAction ?

I don't quite understand what you typed there ... but

I only see Sent Actions in the IB menu, so I connected it to that. The text field is set to have action "Sent on End Editing", so editing is finished when the action is sent.

There are 2 messages that can be sent by the text field (look at connections Inspector in the inspectors panel):

Editing Did End

and

Did End on Exit

They are sent depending you leave by hitting enter, or clicking another field.

I found useful to connect the 2 to the IBAction.

Sorry, I don't see those. Where should they be?

I put two images in this post, but they don't show up when I hit save. Can we not use images in posts?

Anyway these are the options for an NSTextField in the connections inspector:

Triggered Seques

action

Outlets

delegate

formatter

menu

nextKeyView

Sent Actions

action

Accessibility

link

title

Referencing Outlets

positionX (mine)

Received Actions

performClick

print

selectText

takeDoubleValueFrom

takeFloatValueFrom

takeIntegerValueFrom

takeIntValueFrom

takeObjectValueFrom

takeStringValueFrom

Accessibility References

link

title

That's it. Are you sure you aren't talking about iOS?

No, we cannot pst images.

Oh, yes, I thought it was IOS. Sorry for this.

When you call

sender.window?.makeFirstResponder(nil)

do you get true as value ?

let result =  sender.window?.makeFirstResponder(nil)
print(result)

If

responder

isn’t already the first responder, this method first sends a

resignFirstResponder()

message to the object that is the first responder. If that object refuses to resign, it remains the first responder, and this method immediately returns

false

. If the current first responder resigns, this method sends a

becomeFirstResponder()

message to

responder

. If

responder

does not accept first responder status, the

NSWindow

object becomes first responder; in this case, the method returns

true

even if

responder

refuses first responder status.

If

responder

is

nil

, this method still sends

resignFirstResponder()

to the current first responder. If the current first responder refuses to resign, it remains the first responder and this method immediately returns

false

. If the current first responder returns

true

from

resignFirstResponder()

, the window is made its own first responder and this method returns

true

.

Yes, like any action involving UI, must take place on main thread.

Most likely, it returned false before ?

No, it still returned true. Surprising there is not more documentation about this -- it's something that must happen all the time when using IB and actions.